[amsat-bb] Spectacular Photo of the ISS (pixel)

Robert Bruninga bruninga at usna.edu
Sat Jul 4 18:48:05 UTC 2015


> this potographer had a few-seconds' window to capture the ISS against
the moon:
>
http://www.cnet.com/news/stunning-photo-catches-the-iss-in-transit-over-th
e-full-moon/#ftag=CAD590a51e

The ISS appears big because it is close to us.  I was curious to see what
it would look like if it was in orbit around the moon.  Turns out, it
would be one-tenth the size of even a single pixel.

I edited the image to show this:
http://aprs.org/ISS-moon-picture.png

Bob, WB4APR


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